Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: device must have at least one channel

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2016 at 02:32:58PM -0700, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> The DMA device can't be registered if it doesn't have any channels
> registered at all. Moreover, it leads to memory leak and is reported by
> kmemleak as (on 3.10 kernel, and same shall happen on mainline):
> 
> unreferenced object 0xffffffc09e597240 (size 64):
>   comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294877736 (age 7060.280s)
>   hex dump (first 32 bytes):
>     00 00 00 00 c0 ff ff ff 30 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff  ........0.......
>     00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff 00 00 00 ff  ................
>   backtrace:
>     [<ffffffc0003079ec>] create_object+0x148/0x2a0
>     [<ffffffc000cc150c>] kmemleak_alloc+0x80/0xbc
>     [<ffffffc000303a7c>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x120/0x1ac
>     [<ffffffc00054771c>] dma_async_device_register+0x160/0x46c
>     [<ffffffc000548958>] foo_probe+0x1a0/0x264
>     [<ffffffc0005d6658>] platform_drv_probe+0x14/0x20
>     [<ffffffc0005d50cc>] driver_probe_device+0x160/0x374
>     [<ffffffc0005d538c>] __driver_attach+0x60/0x90
>     [<ffffffc0005d3e78>] bus_for_each_dev+0x7c/0xb0
>     [<ffffffc0005d4a0c>] driver_attach+0x1c/0x28
>     [<ffffffc0005d459c>] bus_add_driver+0x124/0x248
>     [<ffffffc0005d59cc>] driver_register+0x90/0x110
>     [<ffffffc0005d6bf4>] platform_driver_register+0x58/0x64
>     [<ffffffc00142a70c>] foo_driver_init+0x10/0x1c
>     [<ffffffc000200878>] do_one_initcall+0xac/0x148
>     [<ffffffc00140096c>] kernel_init_freeable+0x1a0/0x258
> 
> Return -ENODEV from dma_async_device_register() on such a case.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
> ---
> Hi Vinod,
> 
> Sorry if the fundamentals behind this patch are completely incorrect,
> i.e. We *can't* register a dma device with 0 channels. Its been long
> that I have worked on dma stuff :)
> 
>  drivers/dma/dmaengine.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
> index 8c9f45fd55fc..6b535262ac5d 100644
> --- a/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
> +++ b/drivers/dma/dmaengine.c
> @@ -997,6 +997,13 @@ int dma_async_device_register(struct dma_device *device)
>  		}
>  		chan->client_count = 0;
>  	}
> +
> +	if (!chancnt) {
> +		dev_err(device->dev, "%s: device has no channels!\n", __func__);
> +		rc = -ENODEV;
> +		goto err_out;
> +	}
> +
>  	device->chancnt = chancnt;
>  
>  	mutex_lock(&dma_list_mutex);

To follow up on this, as you found out, this patch breaks working
hardware, so please don't apply it anywhere.  It needs more debugging to
figure out exactly what is going on with some very strange hardware that
seems to be relying on some strange code...

thanks,

greg k-h